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# In the Latest Issue (11 Aug 2016)

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## TIME Staff


Aug 11, 2016 10:00 AM UTC

![Donald Trump meltdown Time Magazine Cover](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4a7a2d72b811faf4/6988a1e10a4a22022c9cadf5/trump-melt-final.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=3:2)

Illustration by Edel Rodriguez for TIME

by 

[TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/)


## TIME Staff


Aug 11, 2016 10:00 AM UTC

[Inside Donald Trump’s Meltdown](http://time.com/4447985/inside-donald-trump-meltdown/?iid=toc%5F081116)

[Amid Donald Trump’s Stumbles, an America-First Rebellion That Is Just Beginning](http://time.com/4447989/donald-trump-economy/?iid=toc%5F081116)

[Legends Live on In an Editor’s Book](http://time.com/4447988/legends-live-on-in-an-editors-book/?iid=toc%5F081116)

[To Understand America, You Have to Ride the Railroad](http://time.com/4447982/colson-whitehead-the-underground-railroad-review/?iid=toc%5F081116)

[6 Questions for Colson Whitehead, Author of_The Underground Railroad_](http://time.com/4447972/colson-whitehead-the-underground-railroad/?iid=toc%5F081116)

The author of _The Underground Railroad_, Oprah’s new book-club pick, talks about making fiction from history’s great atrocity

[Why More Americans Are Choosing Cremation](http://time.com/4447973/why-more-americans-are-choosing-cremation/?iid=toc%5F081116)

[Dear Mr. Putin: Here’s Why You Should Help Save My Beloved BlackBerry](http://time.com/4447974/dear-mr-putin-heres-why-you-should-help-save-my-beloved-blackberry/?iid=toc%5F081116)

[How Airports Are Fixing Security Chaos](http://time.com/4447976/how-airports-are-fixing-security-chaos/?iid=toc%5F081116)

[Requiem for Venezuela](http://time.com/4447977/requiem-for-venezuela/?iid=toc%5F081116)

How the nation with more oil than anywhere else in the world fell apart

[What You Said About …](http://time.com/4447978/what-you-said-about/?iid=toc%5F081116)

[The Origami Canoe](http://time.com/4447979/the-origami-canoe/?iid=toc%5F081116)

[Quick Talk with Chris Pine](http://time.com/4447981/chris-pine/?iid=toc%5F081116)

Fresh off his turn as Captain Kirk in Star Trek Beyond, Pine, 35, stars in Hell or High Water, a neo-western heist drama in which two brothers steal from a chain of Texas banks to save their family ranch.

[A Girl Grows In Brooklyn](http://time.com/4447984/a-girl-grows-in-brooklyn/?iid=toc%5F081116)

[A Beginner’s Guide to Cupping](http://time.com/4447986/a-beginners-guide-to-cupping/?iid=toc%5F081116)

An ancient Chinese therapy is center stage this Olympics after a handful of American swimmers were spotted (literally) with dark, round marks on their bodies. Here’s what to know about cupping.

[Off-Key, but on Point](http://time.com/4447987/off-key-but-on-point/?iid=toc%5F081116)

Meryl Streep shows the power of a middle-aged dreamer in Stephen Frears’ Florence Foster Jenkins

[Pop Chart](http://time.com/4447991/pop-chart/?iid=toc%5F081116)

[This Just In](http://time.com/4447992/this-just-in/?iid=toc%5F081116)

[Cheap Michelin-Starred Eats](http://time.com/4447993/cheap-michelin-starred-eats/?iid=toc%5F081116)

[Suicide Squad Asks Us to Choose: Evil or Extinction](http://time.com/4447995/suicide-squad-asks-us-to-choose-evil-or-extinction/?iid=toc%5F081116)

[Turkey and Russia Get Closer–and Worry the West](http://time.com/4447996/turkey-and-russia-get-closer/?iid=toc%5F081116)


[Untangling Alzheimer’s: Simple Lifestyle Changes May Prevent Cognitive Decline](http://time.com/4447997/untangling-alzheimers/?iid=toc%5F081116)

When it comes to preventing cognitive decline, simple lifestyle changes are finally being borne out by science

[Milestones](http://time.com/4447998/milestones/?iid=toc%5F081116)

[_Pete’s Dragon_ Soars Before It Stumbles](http://time.com/4447999/petes-dragon-soars-before-it-stumbles/?iid=toc%5F081116)

[Pandora’s Baby: The New Science of Predicting Your Child](http://time.com/4448000/pandoras-baby/?iid=toc%5F081116)

[The Upside of ‘Bad’ Behavior](http://time.com/4448001/the-upside-of-bad-behavior/?iid=toc%5F081116)

[Walmart’s DIY Plan to Fight Petty Theft](http://time.com/4448002/walmarts-diy-plan-to-fight-petty-theft/?iid=toc%5F081116)

[Japan’s Emperor Hints at an Early Exit](http://time.com/4448003/japans-emperor-hints-at-an-early-exit/?iid=toc%5F081116)

[Why Washington Is Worried About a Shifting Rebel Alliance in Aleppo](http://time.com/4446922/syria-civil-war-aleppo-jabhat-fateh-al-sham/?iid=toc%5F081116)

A five-year-old civil war won’t end any time soon

[For the Record](http://time.com/4447971/for-the-record/?iid=toc%5F081116)

[Review: Baz Luhrmann’s _The Get Down_Misses Too Many Beats](http://time.com/4443886/the-get-down-review-netflix/?iid=toc%5F081116)

The cast captures the ecstatic mix of turntables, rhymes, dance and art, but the feeling doesn’t last

[‘No Man’s Sky’ Isn’t What You Wanted. Thank God](http://time.com/4444324/no-mans-sky-review/?iid=toc%5F081116)

No Man’s Sky is not the game most people expected it to be. Why that’s a very good thing

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